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There Aren’t Nearly Enough Survival Games Like V-Rising

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sam Hallahan

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I’d heard about V Rising from many of my co-workers, but never got around to trying it out during its early access period. Right before its full launch in May 2024, I boug🃏ht it at a discount, but it was only recently, just over a year later, that I actually sat down to play it. Turns out, everyone was right: it’s fun. Who could’ve guessed? Obviously not me.

However, the biggest thing that impresses me about it as a fan of survival games, is how this survival game doesn’t actually feel li♎ke a survival game -🌃 and we need more survival games like that.

How many times can you say ‘survival𒈔 game’ in a single sentence?

Cool Vampire Stuff First, Survival Mechanics Second

I’m not saying every survival game needs to be a vampire game. I’m also not not saying that, but that’s not the point; the point is that V Rising doesn’t feel like it’s presenting a survival game where you’re a vampire, but a ⛄vampire game with survival mechanics. Still with me?

It feels more like an RPG than anything, with blood-collecting-based progression for skills, abilities, and stronger foes offering more powerful blood. The game also takes an isometric view of the world, akin to other notable RPGs like Diablo or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Divinity: Original Sin. It’s only when you progress a little further that you find the survival crafting elements, with materials for building your castle and gear required. You also have to stay out of the sunlight if you want to avoid burning, which in of itself is a brilliant mechanic about survival, a🌼nd especially stylistic in this top-down perspective as you shadow the, well, shadows,💯 of clouds.

I Love Survival Games, And That’s Why I Want More That ‘Aren’t’

no mans sky character standing in a large settlement.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:No Man’s Sky feels like a science fiction exploration game; 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Subnautica feels like a deep-sea horror game; 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Alters feels like a narrative-driven sci-fi tale. Still, each of them also feels like a survival game in equal measure, with their own directions𒆙 and specialisations. And they’re all fantastic, no doubt about that.

At the same time, on the other end of the spectrum, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elden Ring has material-based crafting; 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red Dead Redemption 2 has hunger and temperature; Bethesda games like Skyrim, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 4, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield all have options to enable harsh survival elements. But none of these games are survival games, so those𝓰 elements feel entirely additional.

V Rising, however, just doesn’t feel like a survival game in an obvious way, nor like the survival elements are sprinkled atop the experience. It feels like the survival is there, at the co﷽re, underneath the whole foundation of the game, but it’s been built upon in a unique way.

You forget it’s a survival game because it’s unequivocally a vampire ARPG, but it never once shies away from the survival genre as a whole. Though I waited over a year to actually give this one a try, I’m glad I did, as it’s suddenly one of the m𓂃ost notable survival games I’ve played, smartly disguising its🍬elf ot a point where it no longer reaches the cliches of the genre.